Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is a danger in too narrow a focus on products and patents, warns Y.H. Tan, director of Singapore's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology. While these may pay off in the short term, they are unlikely to yield the dazzling technological leaps that come from tackling fundamental problems in science. Tan's solution: continue supporting basic research -- like mapping the genes of the fugu, the poisonous blowfish prized by sushi chefs -- while at the same time prospecting for new drugs in Southeast Asia's flora and fauna for the British giant Glaxo...
...Harvard men's hockey team is beginning to learn that talent and skill don't necessarily yield winning results...
...sheer bulk of the harvest rolling into the towering prairie elevators and barges along the great rivers is not the entire story. The yield per acre of land has been phenomenal. Early government estimates were for 33.5 bushels per acre of soybeans. That went up to 40.5 bushels per acre before the harvest began. "That is the distinguishing feature," claims economist Collins. "I've never seen an estimate move so far above the trend line. Statistically, it is one chance in a hundred." The average for corn leaped from 127 bushels to 134 bushels per acre...
...survivors, almost all of them educated landowners plugged in by computers to the latest technologies of soil, fertilizers and cultivation, were ready and waiting. The terrible floods of last year had left many of them convinced that the sand-covered bottomlands -- some abandoned in discouragement -- would cut into the yield...
...growth industries in a world about to triple its demands on farming resources," he declares. "Few farmers have yet looked at the opportunity. They are still fixated on saving their crumbling subsidies in Washington." His answer: eliminating price supports and trade barriers and, above all, increasing the U.S. farm yield even further. That American grain, Avery says, is what can feed the livestock of prospering nations as they move to improve their diets. "The market for American farming has been and will be meat, milk and eggs, and the feeds with which to produce them." If American agriculture fails...